Social Commentaries
Catalepton 2
Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1918) · From Minor Poems (Loeb, 1918)
Social Commentaries
It's Corinthian words the fellow adores, that sorry rhetorician! For, perfect Thucydides that he is, he is lord of the Attic fever; as his Gallic tau, his min and sphin he wickedly pounded up, so of all such word-spells he mixed a dose for his brother!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Appendix Vergiliana; authorship by Virgil doubtful.
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